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Holy Crap, the curse is over


the curse is over




die goat



go Sox!


congrats

ASTROS!!!!




lost


i'm sincerely upset

if you are an astros fan you are upset too, but still so so proud of our AMAZING BOYS WHO CAME BACK FROM UNDER 500 HALFWAY THROUGH THE SEASON


ALL MY LIFE I WILL BE AN ASTROS FAN.

Today is the day that i make that pledge.


Come rain or shine, Astros till i die.

Holy crap, i hate when people think that they are the only one who feels one way

Man, people think that they are the only one going through stuff and the only one with problems


i tell you what, i'm gonna step outside my issues and i'm gonna look past my immediate cares and i'm gonna look at people - i'm gonna see in what ways the Lord uses me - because - everyone else - they are loking out for number 1 and caring only about themselves

now, lets be crystal clear - i'm not any place close to completely doing that - but thats what i'm working towards - a goal that is worth working towards -

get over yourself, whoever you are


live for the ETERNAL - not for the temporal

and don't forget to be sweet, becuase no one loves an abrasive personality

You go ahead and live in mediocrity

i'm gonna strive - i'm gonna step up - i really want to step up -and just go crazy

Running through the rain tonight - i felt ALIVE AGAIN


The pattern of the rain on my window next to me is so soothing - its odd, i know


The Astros lost tonight, the Cardinals are a bunch of shallow punks, they have no pitching, only big bats, they dont DESERVE A SINGLE THING


I find myself thinking and thinking and thinking, and i love it

so much

i love the thoughts that cross my mind - all the time - random and deep, stupid and random

its great


Vote for something, get informed, don't vote in any kind of ignorance

OK, so here's the list forever

i think this is going to be the order it stays and if you want a CD - then maybe you could email me or IM me your address and i could mail you one if you mail me a buck or so - or maybe not - i'm not really sure - but if you're interested and live in CS or Htown - or something let me know - but anyhow here we go:

1. Livin' On A Prayer (Bon Jovi) - Megan Douglass
2. Two Step (Dave Matthews Band) - Colin Veitenheimer
3. With or Without You (U2) - Caroline Sanders
4. Jesus Freak (dc talk) - Kim Podraza
5. Green Onions (instrumental)** (Booker T & The McGs) - Chris Riley
6. El Scorcho (Weezer) - Rebekah Matthews
7. Shameless (Garth Brooks) - Caitlin Wales
8. Leaving Town (Dexter Freebish) - Daniel Weizel
9. I Wish You Were Here (Incubus) - Chip Teets
10. You Know How I Do (Taking Back Sunday) - Chris Hamernik
11. Breathe (Michelle Branch) - Emily Scott
12. Drive (Incubus) - Daniel Weizel/Will Lanier
13. Take Me Out To The Dance Hall (Pat Green) - Chris Hill
14. Wake for Young Souls (Thrid Eye Blind) - Steve Weizel
15. Amsterdam (Coldplay) - Daniel Weizel...it is my efforts ya know...
16. Living In Your Letters (Dashboard Confessional) - Emily Staff


Music is absolutly amazing, and i wish i had some kind of musical talent

God is so good.

I have a bad feeling.

OK heres what i'm going to do...


i'm going to make a mix - its going to be titled: Songs You Will/Should Sing Loudly

I want a mix of songs that people love to just sing at the top of their lungs in their car, or anywhere.

So i'm going to take suggestions/favorites for songs to put on, and i'm going to post the list on here and i'm gonna make people who want a cd of these songs

so i'll start the list:

1. Leaving Town (Dexter Freebish) - Daniel Weizel
2. Take Me Out To The Dance Hall (Pat Green) - Chris Hill
3.




now, i may add others that i love to sing, but i feel like many people would sing at the top of their lungs some of the songs i'd add

but - i really want your input - so IM me at ' zeroweez0' <- thats the number "zero" at the end email me at weez@tamu.edu or call me if you have my cell phone


on a different note, i'm 0 for 2 for getting involved this year - but God's still God and I'm still just a 20 year old college punk, so i'll let Him handle it all


Praise be to God.

"...when will we learn? when will we change? just in time to see it all fall down..."

"Do you realize that the anarchists and these people marching against Bush and the Republicans in New York are doing it on the basis that we shouldn't be at war, and now here comes Edwards out there saying, 'We can win it. We will win it'?...Make no mistake about it, its all anti-Bush. There's not any pro-Kerry support...It's all based on an anti-war mentality. It's all based on '60s thinking. It's all based on we're the ones that are evil. We're provoking all these other people. We're the ones that make them fire on us; if we just try to understand them and appease them and so fourth, all this stuff will go away, and here comes Edwards pledging that he and Kerry can win the war."-Rush Limbaugh



Now, get this: I have nothing against people protesting. Nothing at all.

They have every right to, according to the First Amendment of our Constitutions, and I would die defending that right if I needed too. Wouldn't you? Shouldn't you? (that is, if needed)


What would you lay your life down for? Nothing? Well, your life is lacking if you wouldn't; because once you find something you would die for, it makes life SO MUCH more meaningful.

Then you have something to LIVE for.

Pursue those things; pursue TRUTH.

http://members.cox.net/macallan_the/GW/GWBush1_Start.htm

statistics are cool

2 Days of classes have come and gone.

I'm tired of mediocrity.

I'll tell you what. You sit in the middle, wallowing in your indecision, figure it out. I'm gonna be myself. I'm no longer going to be timid. Its ridiculous to not at least figure out what makes you go. Find what makes you go and GO.

Now, maybe you don't know what makes you go, but let me tell you this. What makes me go is pretty simple.

Its truth. Truth. Truth.

I know (among others) these things to be true:

-The Lord God of Jacob, the Eternal Sovereign God of Israel is the One True God. He has blessed me over and over with so much that it can't recount it.

Oddly enough, at the moment, I can't think of anything else that I KNOW is Truth. See, thats my point, its this quest.

Its this quest that we are all on, and there are only a few answers to the major questions. Is there a God? Yes, He is the aforementioned God of the Universe, and He lives inside my heart. Its only by His grace that I live, that I have all that I do, that I can smile anytime during the day. I know this too - i know that if I were to control what was going on in my life, I would be in deep trouble. Not only would i overcomplicate things and destroy so many valueable things, I would somehow manage to disappoint so many people.

I know this too - I'm here right now. I'm at Texas A&M for a reason. I'm here in Crocker Hall for a reason, and I'm in Texas, etc. So, I'll...

"Go, go where you are, anchor your roots underneath; doubt your doubts and believe your beliefs..."

(Switchfoot's Ode to Chin)


His Grace is sufficient for me.

Wow, I don't know where to start.

Summer is over.

I went to fish camp again, this time as a counselor. Session D - Aqua - Camp Nick McGuire.


It was amazing. Accurately put with "amazing". I can't believe how genuine people are. I understand, don't worry, that some are not genuine. Most are not. But i met some of these freshman, and other people, and they are just so cool. It was so great.

Cool stories:

-Tuesday 8 p.m. Miori Morris Arrant and J Richardson and I take off for Cincinnati, then after driving straight through and catching the night game at the Great American Ballpark, in Cincinnati (which the Cards won 6-5, and which an old Ag came over to us and sat with us for a few innings - talking about his days at A&M '81-85 - and talking to us about stuff), we drove into Chicago, and got in about 3 a.m. After winding our way through the Southside (Inglewood) at 230 a.m. , we made it to our hotel. We woke up at 1030 and caught the L to Wrigley. We got off and walked into the stadium to hisses and boo's and Huck Fouston t-shirts. Classy, Chicago, Frank was wrong about ya'll. So we go catch batting practice for the Astros and then we go up to our seats. Wrigley Field is absolutly marvelous. It is pure baseball. No advertisiments everywhere, no huge LCD screen, not even an automated scoreboard. Simply pure baseball. It was so cool. So we sit down in the upper deck behind home plate, and this guy comes and sits in front of us. He turns around and says, "Whats up guys? Ya'll go to A&M?" To which we said, "Yea." Turns out he just graduated last semester, and was chillin' in Chicago - he has a job there, and is still an Astros loyalist. So the game starts off with a double by Biggio and a home run by Bagwell. 2-0 in the first inning. So all 5 of us and our new friend are standing up yelling, blah blah - all juiced. Then the bottom of 3 comes up. 0-2 to the pitcher Mark Prior 1 out - all we need to do is throw him a curve. No, Brandon Backe, please throw him 4 sinkers in the dirt. Please put him on base and give up 2 hits and walk the next 2, so we can allow Alou to sac fly 1 run in and then we can throw Sammy Sosa his belt high fast ball that he likes to HIT TO RIGHT FIELD. Yes, thats just what we'll do, give them 5 runs, and put ourselves mentally out of the game.

So the game sucked, but after that, we went to Gordino's or something like that - and had the best pizza, well ever created in the world. While we were there, and just getting our pizza, Steven Miori looks up and shouts - "Weathers!" And Daniel and Jeff Weathers flash through my mind. Nope, Dave Weathers, number 35 for the Astros, relief pitcher. So he says - "Hey guys." We finish our meal and I devise a scheme to quickly interrupt his meal with his family and explain that we have to go back to college tomorrow, but good luck with the rest of the series. So he stops us and we talk a/b A&M for a while - football, nonetheless - and he tells us he is a big Alabama fan. He wishes us luck and a safe drive back. We go walking back towards our hotel and we stop by the ESPN Zone, and the Virgin Megastore. Then we go to the full service Marriot and swim in the pool and sit in the hot tub. We go out on the 9th story deck and overlook the lit up city, while liting up cigars, and taking many cool pictures. So we stop back by the awesome pool/cigar/bar lounge area - where they are jamming John Mayer, and these guys turn around from the bar and say "Ya'll from Houston?" To which we answer Yes. So turns out all these guys are from Plano, one, who was EXTREMELY wasted, went to Texas, and his buddy went to A&M. So drunk Texas guy is just rambling on providing for us many many laughs, telling us about Mormon ***** and on and on... then out of no where - he blurts out "Are yawwwl Crocker Cocks?!!" And we look at each other in amusment and say, well yes - I'm in my second year there and this guy spent 3 and the other guy (morris) spent 2. Crocker
Hall is my dorm, and its awesome. Our mascot is a Rooster, so we are the cocks. It was completely random in conversation as well as in our lives. We happen to go to this other hotel, swim in their pool, stop by their lounge, strike up a convo with this guy, who is not even from A&M , but knows alot about it, and his buddy like - "practically lived there" but just was there all the time he said. It was crazy. After declining rounds of beers, citing our drive home as a reason, we left and we are fixing to get up at 6 a.m. and head back home, to College Station.


I can't wait to be back, start classes, get a schedule, hang out with my freshmen, because all of them that i have met are so cool.

Man,

Daniel: "Ben, what are you gonna do with your life?"

Ben: "Live it."

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zerOweez0: fill in the blank
lIlIbby61: ok
zerOweez0: josh is _______
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Here is an excerpt from a radio interview with Secretary Rumsfeld. I got the link and ideas from Jon Boben's blog (http://jonboben.blogspot.com).

"...troops in Iraq had recently come across – I’ve forgotten the number, but something like 16 or 17 – warheads that contained sarin and mustard gas.Now these are weapons that we always knew Saddam Hussein had that he had not declared and they have tested them and I have not seen them and I have not tested them, but they believe that they are correct that these, in fact, were undeclared chemical weapons -- sarin and mustard gas -- quite lethal and that is a discovery that just occurred within the last period of days."- Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, Wednesday, June 30, 2004

http://www.dod.mil/transcripts/2004/tr20040630-secdef0949.html




July 16th, David Ortiz, gets tossed from the game and throws a bunch of bats at the umpires. 5 game suspension handed out.

He appeals it.

Then, he drops the appeal. David Ortiz owned up to his actions.

July 24th, Alex Rodriguez is hit by a pitch. On the way to first base, he gets into a shouting match with Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek. Varitek hits A Rod in the face with a palm/glove.

A Rod begins swinging and they fight. Benches clear and people join in. Wow, the Bo Sox / Yanks rivalry is intense, probably more intense than any in sports.

A Rod gets fined a whopping 2000 dollars (as well as Varitek) and a 4 game suspension.

A Rod then holds a press conference next day to announce that he plans to appeal the suspension.


Let me get this straight, you tell extremely harsh words and then don't walk away, and then you throw punches, and you expect to get minimal punishments.

I took some excerpts from http://www.mlb.com

"Any time you get into an altercation like that, Major League Baseball should do something," Rodriguez said. "My words were very strong and ugly, but they were simply a reply and a repetition of what was said to me. I thought four games was too much.

"I've never been called out like that before in my 10-year big league career," the third baseman added. "I was surprised and shocked, and in the heat of the moment, I did what I did."

Rodriguez, who missed just one game from 2001-03, also hinted that Varitek should receive more games than he did because, as a catcher, he doesn't play every day to begin with.

Grow up A Rod, grow up and own up to your actions. You over-paid sissy.


In other news, I went to New Braunfels this weekend and got to hang out with Sheridan, Erin, and Carly - aka "Disturbin' da peace!" Meeting my new friends Blain, Brandon, Brian aka Porkchop, an old friend STEEEEVE, and hanging out with Camp McGuire. Higher and Higher and Higher and Higher, you know who WE be; we be camp MCGUIRE!

I'm done working at day camp, which is nice. But i really enjoyed having an impact on those kids, and hopefully they will take something from what i shared with them this summer. If they do, my summer couldn't be more complete.

Its about the effects you have on people's lives, its not about what you do. Well, it kind of is about what you do, but pictures will not live on after you die. Things you accomplish are just that accomplishments. They are memories, and they are defintiely worthwhile - but diplomas and pictures and certificates and badges and cash and all that jazz will go bye bye in the end. But what you say to people, what you tell them, the effect you have on their lives, that, friend, will stay with them forever.

Invest in things worthwhile, and focus on things that are beneficial. Thats what i'm trying to do.

Veritas.

I got back from Aruba on Saturday afternoon, and I went and saw John Mayer and Maroon 5.  Wow, what a show. What  a week.  It was so amazing, yes, way amazing to sit on the beach and just chill out. Take a nap, get tan, swim in the ocean with Will Lanier and my family. 

I want to be so sincere.  I want people to really truly believe me, because i feel like i'm sincere in my actions.  I"m not saying - oh i want people to believe me no matter what i say - i'm saying- i want people to believe me like - because i'm an honest person. I'm not shady, I'm not a liar, I really just speak the truth.  I mean, what more can you do?  What more can you do besides be yourself and be honest with people?  Moreover, what more can you do for yourself besides be honest? 

I don't care what you're going through, i don't care who you are.  The best thing you can do for yourself, is be honest.  If you are weak in some area, admit it.  It hurts so much when I have to admit that to myself.

When i have to admit that i was wrong, or that i'm struggling with this or i can't handle something, it sucks, alot.

Random, i know.

Another thing:

I want to have such an amazing perspective. I want to be able to see things from so many different points of view.  I want to have such a great view on things, so like - i can understand how people see things.  I don't want to look at a situation and see it from 1 side, i want to be able to understand it and truly catch all of its dimensions.

Honesty, Perspective

Gain both, gain much.

Ok,
 
So i'm in the Newark hotel business desk typing this up - i'm gonna try to make it short but i'll update later
 
i'm going to aruba tomorrow morn before a brief stop in newark/new york city
 
my parents grew up in enyce so i've been there alot - like 4 times in the past year - anyhow - so - we waited in line for a/b an hour to go up the empire state building - and it was kinda fun - i'm with will lanier, my mom dad and steven and his girlfriend kelly, and i notice a guy wearing what appears to be an aggie ring on his hand - i try to take a look at it closer, but i fail - and i assume that it might be but oh well - on the way down - after seeing some amazing sights of enyce at night lit up - wow - guess who i'm in the elevator with - and i decided, once we got off - to ask him about it - and i go - 'excuse me sir, i noticed your ring, what school is that from?' to which he replys with a heart "TEXAS A&M".  My heart skipped a beat - and i said - 'howdy, i'm daniel, class of '07' - it was awesome - and i know some of you might think this was ridiculous and goofy - but i don't expect you to feel a/b it the same way i do - i guess thats why this is my blog and i share my feelings - anyhow - he shakes my hand and says - i'm class of '54 (This is his 50th year reunion - this past Muster was) - so he puts his arm around me and we walk out of the empire state building talking a/b my major and his major (journalism) and - he was just way cool - a cool old guy - a/b 72+ , he was so awesome - so - he said - have a great time here - and i echoed it back - and he left - and then i wanted to ask him so many questions -where does he live - where did he live on campus - he had to have been in the corps - what outfit - was his wife an aggie -
 
anyhow, i leave for aruba in '07 hours
 
 
I'm proud of my school, it is so special, I wish i could share it with EVERY, SINGLE ONE of my blog readers - because it means so much to me - and you reading my blog means alot to me too
 
I'll talk to ya'll soon
 
Daniel

Chris Hill. Look for his link.

I was driving along home from work on Thursday afternoon and just cruising and jamming to incubus or coldplay one of the 2

and i decided it would be way tight to wave to other people on the road - it was a beautiful day - ya know?

so i caught eyes with this guy on a harley - going the other way - and my hand was already hanging out the window - so i raised my hand and waved to him - he took his hand off his bike and gave the biggest most happy grin i've seen in a long while - it was really really funny - and i laughed - and it was like - he knew me or something - one of those ones that you do to someone you know - anyhow - it was really awesome and it made my day